UFC 311 Main Event Salvaged After Weigh-In Withdrawal

UFC 311 has resulted in a loopy week for MMA‘s high promotion. Let’s flashback to final Sunday, when because of wildfire considerations in Southern California, UFC CEO Dana White talked about he had Las Vegas as a backup plan for the present.

White’s tune modified because the week progressed. In an interview on Westwood One Radio’s The Jim Rome Present, he reaffirmed his plans to carry UFC 311 at Intuit Dome as scheduled on Saturday evening.

“There is no probability we transfer it. We’ll be there Saturday, 100%.”@DanaWhite on offering an escape for followers in SoCal on the Intuit Dome for @UFC 311 pic.twitter.com/uq0QgGKCuW

— Jim Rome (@jimrome) January 15, 2025

All the pieces gave the impression to be enterprise as standard for the primary UFC pay-per-view on the schedule for 2025, till the official weigh-ins came about earlier this morning.

UFC 311 Major Eventer Out of Motion

Throughout Friday morning’s weigh-ins, No. 1 contender Arman Tsarukyan (22-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC), who was slated to problem Islam Makhachev (26-1 MMA, 15-1 UFC) for the latter’s UFC Light-weight Championship in the primary occasion of the night, was compelled out of motion because of sustaining a again harm.

Dana White revealed that No. 10 contender Renato Moicano (20-5-1 MMA, 12-5 UFC), initially scheduled to verse Beneil Dariush (22-6-1 MMA, 16-6-1 UFC, has entered the primary occasion on 36 hours’ discover to salvage the headliner. No efforts had been made to safe a brand new opponent for Dariush forward of tomorrow’s present.

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

Makhachev will now be dealing with Moicano for the light-weight title. #UFC311 is LIVE TOMORROW on @ESPNPlus PPV! pic.twitter.com/2JZevvpQP2

— danawhite (@danawhite) January 17, 2025

Previous to Tsarukyan’s withdrawal from the primary occasion of the night, Makhachev was inside the allowable weight at 154 1/2 lbs. Moicano had no problem on the scales right this moment, registering a weight of 155 lbs precisely.

UFC 311 Co-Major Occasion A Go

The primary half of Saturday’s title struggle twin-bill can also be locked in after Friday’s weigh-ins. Tomorrow night’s co-main occasion for the UFC Bantamweight Championship will proceed after each champion Merab Dvalishvili (18-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) and challenger Umar Nurmagomedov (18-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) weighed in at 134 lbs and 135 lbs, respectively.

Extra shuffling was made forward of the cardboard. A scheduled prelim at heavyweight between No. 6 contender Jailton Almeida (21-3 MMA, 7-1 UFC) and No. 7 contender Serghei Spivac (17-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC) was promoted to the primary card, together with a middleweight contest on the prelims pitting Zachary Reese (8-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) in opposition to Azamat Bekoev (18-3 MMA, UFC promotional debut) getting shifted to the later portion of the undercard.